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Humanities Research Centre, RSHA: Long term & Non-funded FellowsDr Donna MERWICK DENING, Long Term RSH Visiting Fellow, Melbourne. (1 January 2010 to 25 March 2012). Email: dening@patash.com.au Dr Glen BARCLAY, Canberra. (1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010). Email: glen.barclay@anu.edu.au Dr Mary EDMUNDS, Rio Tinto Iron Ore, Perth. (1 January 2010 to 31 December 2010). Email: mary.edmunds@bigpond.com Mr Peter FAY, Sydney, NSW. (1 January 2010 to 31 March 2010). Email: pkf@idx.com.au Dr Mary HUTCHISON, Canberra: (1 January 2010 to 16 December 2010). Email: mary.hutchison@anu.edu.au Dr Bill KRUSE, Consultant, Canberra. (1 January 2010 to 30 April 2010). E: billkruse@ozemail.com.au Ms Judith MacDOUGALL, The Australian National University. (1 January 2010 to 31 July 2012). Email: judith.macdougall@anu.edu.au Mr Robert NUGENT, Canberra: Documentary Development. (1 January 2010 to 15 March 2010). E: robnugent@viafilm.com.au Professor Paul TAÇON, School of Humanities, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Centre for Rock Art Establishment. (1 January 2010 to 31 December 2012). E: p.tacon@griffith.edu.au Professor Gillian WHITLOCK, Department of English, University of Queensland: Posthuman Autobiography: the precarious subjects of contemporary life narrative. (1 February 2010 to 15 March 2010). E: g.whitlock@uq.edu.au A/Professor Kenneth Paul TAN, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, Academic Affairs, Singapore. (1 July 2010 to 1 December 2010). E: spptank@nus.edu.sg Dr Margaret BAGULEY, Arts Education, Curriculm and Pedagogy, University of Southern Queensland. (23 August 2010 to 15 October 2010). E: margaret.baguley@usq.edu.au Fellows BiographiesTaçon, Professor Paul
Prof. Taçon has made key archaeological discoveries in western Arnhem Land (NT) and Wollemi National Park (NSW) that have been published in journals and also have made world headlines. This includes not only the origins of the Rainbow Serpent (1996) but also possibly the earliest evidence of warfare in the world (1994), significant new Arnhem Land rock art sites (1995, 2008) and both rock art and material culture discoveries in Wollemi National Park (2003, 2006). He has undertaken rock art and other archaeological consultancies in central Australia, western Arnhem Land, central Arnhem Land and New South Wales, as well as parts of Canada and the USA. Whitlock, Professor Gillian
Tan, A/Professor Kenneth Paul
Baguley, Dr Margaret
Recent Research Outcomes Baguley, M., Pullen, D., & Short, M. (2009). "Multiliteracies and the New World Order". In D.Pullen & D. Cole (Eds.). Multiliteracies and Technology Enhanced Education (pp. 1 - 17). Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference. |
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Paul S.C. Taçon FSA is Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology in the School of Humanities, Griffith University, Queensland. Since joining Griffith in 2005 he has led the Picturing Change research program and developed the Eagleandowl Research Network. The latter brings together rock art and human evolution research projects across southeast Asia while the former focuses on contact period rock art of Australia. Prof. Taçon was based at the Australian Museum, Sydney since early 1991 and was Principal Research Scientist in Anthropology from mid-1998 to early 2005. From 1995 to 2003 he was Head of the Australian Museum's People and Place Research Centre. He has conducted archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork since 1980 and has over 70 months field experience in remote parts of Australia, Canada, China, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, southern Africa and the USA. Extensive field expeditions have been undertaken in rugged, wild areas of the Northern Territory and Wollemi National Park, NSW, Australia. Taçon has co-edited three books (including The Archaeology of Rock-art with Dr. Christopher Chippindale) and published over 150 academic and popular papers on prehistoric art, body art, material culture, colour, cultural evolution, identity and contemporary Indigenous issues. He is on the editorial board of the journals Before Farming and Time and Mind, and was Vice-President of the Australian Rock Art Research Association from 2000-2009.
Gillian Whitlock is a Professor of English in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland and a graduate of Queen's University in Canada. Her most recent book, "Soft Weapons: Autobiography in Transit", is a sstudy of life narrative and the "war on terror" published by Chicago UP in 2007. Her earlier monograph, "The Intimate Empire", is a postcolonial study of women's autobiography, published by Continuum in 2000. She is editor and coeditor of 6 books in the fields of Australian Studies, autobiography and postcolonialism, and in 2007 coedited special issues of the journals Biography, Life Writing and Journal of Studies in Australian Literature. Her current research interest is testimony, human rights and the limits of the human, and at the HRC she will be working with Dr Rosanne Kennedy (ANU) and Professor Rosemary Jolley (Queen's) on testimony and trauma, co-convening a special HRC conference in April 2008. She was elected to the Academy of the Humanities in 2007.
Kenneth Paul Tan is Assistant Dean (Academic Affairs) and Associate Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy where he has taught since 2007. From 2000 to 2007, he taught at the National University of Singapore’s Political Science Department and University Scholars Programme. Since 2000, he has received more than 10 teaching awards, including the Outstanding Educator Award 2009, the highest teaching honour bestowed by the University. He is a Fellow and Council Member of the NUS Teaching Academy, and serves on the University Teaching Excellence Committee. He has written widely about Singapore, mainly on (1) governance (focusing on meritocracy, pragmatism, and accountability), democracy, and civil society; (2) the creative economy, the culture industry (focusing on cinema, television, and theatre), and the neoliberal global city; (3) multiculturalism (focusing on race and stereotype), religiosity, secularism, and dialogue; and (4) gender and sexuality (theory and politics). He has published in high quality international journals such as Asian Studies Review, Critical Asian Studies, International Political Science Review, and PS: Political Science and Politics, and has authored two books: Renaissance Singapore? Economy, Culture, and Politics (edited volume, NUS Press, 2007) and Cinema and Television in Singapore: Resistance in One Dimension (Brill, 2008). In 2008, he received a Fulbright Award to be a visiting researcher at Georgetown University (US). In 1995, he received a Lee Kuan Yew Postgraduate Scholarship to read for a Ph.D. in social and political sciences at the University of Cambridge (UK), which he completed in 2000. In 1994, he obtained a first class honours degree in the joint school of economics and politics at the University of Bristol (UK) on a Public Service Commission overseas merit (open) scholarship. He is the founding chair of the Asian Film Archive's board of directors, sits on the board of directors of theatre company The Necessary Stage, and has composed music for some of its performances. He is married to Clara Lim-Tan, principal of CHIJ (Kellock).
Dr Margaret Baguley is a senior lecturer in arts education, curriculum and pedagogy at the University of Southern Queensland. Her contribution to quality learning and teaching has been recognised through a series of awards including the Australian Learning and Teaching Council's national Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2008); a university-wide Teaching Excellence Award (UTAS*, 2007); Teaching Merit Certificates (UTAS*, 2008, 2007, 2004) and a Mentoring Award (UTAS*, 2005). She has an extensive teaching background across all facets of education, in addition to maintaining her arts practice. An interest in collaborative practice and exhibition underpins her teaching.